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The European offshore wind industry key
trends and statistics 2010
Athanasia Arapogianni
Research officer
The European Wind Energy Association
16/03/2011
Outline
• Latest offshore wind developments
• R&D landscape
• European Wind Initiative (EWI)
2010 offshore wind power market
• 308 new offshore wind turbines installed
• 883 MW in total – increased by 51% on the previous year
• Eight wind farms were fully completed and grid connected
• One wind farm partially completed and grid connected
• One wind farm completed but not grid connected
2010 offshore wind power market
INSTALLED CAPACITY: SHARE OF 2010
INSTALLATIONS (MW)
FOUNDATION TYPE IN 2010
OFFSHORE WIND FARMS
Cumulative Market
• 1,136 turbines installed and grid connected
• 2,946 MW in total
• 45 wind farms in nine European countries
• Produces 11.5 TWh of electricity in a normal year
• Average wind turbine size 3.2 MW
Cumulative Market
INSTALLED CAPACITY: CUMULATIVE SHARE BY
COUNTRY AT END 2010 (MW)
Market outlook: 2011 and beyond
• EWEA forecasts that between 1,000 and 1,500 MW of
new offshore wind capacity will be fully grid connected in
Europe during 2011
• 10 wind farms, totalling 3,000 MW, are currently under
construction. When completed, Europe’s installed
offshore capacity will increase to 6,200 MW
• 19,000 MW are currently fully consented
Trends: turbines, water depth and distance to shore
• The average offshore wind farm size in 2010 was 155.3
MW, up from 72.1 MW the previous year
• Average water depth in 2010 was 17.4m, a 5.2m
increase on 2009, with projects under construction in
water depth averaging 25.5m
• Average distance to shore increased in 2010 by 12.7 km
to 27.1 km substantially less, however, than the 35.7 km
average for projects currently under construction.
R&D landscape – International and Central
national institutions covering offshore wind
Research Areas
Project (name/country/Research team)
Wind power meteorology/DK/Risoe
Flow/DK/Risoe
Resource
Wind Resource Assessment/CA/WESNet
assessment (6) Ocean Wind Characteristics/JP/NEDO
Wake effects/CN/WED
Wind study in complex terrain/CN/WED
Improved vessels/EU/TP wind
Supply issues (3) Better access methods/EU/TP wind
Wind power services/CN/GTZ
Operation and maintenance strategies and
technologies/NO/NOWITECH
Operation and maintenance
O&M (3)
optimisation/NL/ECN
Operation and maintenance/CN/GTZ
Research Areas
Project (name/country/Research team)
Offshore substructures, new offshore turbines/EU/TP wind
Aeroelastic modelling/DK/Risoe
New concepts, components and materials/DK/Risoe
Integrated numerical design tools/NO/NOWITECH
Energy conversion systems/NO/NOWITECH
Novel substructures/NO/NOWITECH
Wind Turbine novel concepts for offshore wind turbines/NO/NOWITECH
technology Aerodynamic performance/NL/ECN
and new Integrated wind turbine design/NL/ECN
Materials & Structures/NL/ECN
concepts Turbine operation in complex terrain/GR/CRES
Wind Energy Extraction/CA/WESNet
(18)
Wind power engineering/CA/WENet
Technologies for ocean wind observation/JP/NEDO
Coupled vibration of wind turbines and substructures/JP/NEDO
Floating wind turbines/JP/NEDO
Advanced Component Technology/US/NWTC
Task 23/20 member countries,EC,EWEA/IEA
Research Areas
Project (name/country/Research center)
Wind power and the energy system/DK/Risoe
Energy System
integration and Grid connection and system integration/NO/NOWITECH
grid developments Modelling of the hourly dispatch/CN/WED
(4)
Grid Integration/US/NWTC
Provide cost-effective and commercial RE/CN/CRESP
Economics (3)
Others (7)
Techno-economic aspects of wind energy/CA/WESNet
Optimisation and cost reduction/DK/Risoe
Training and applied research/CN/GTZ
Information and advice/CN/GTZ
Guidance and requirement for wind turbine
selection/CN/WED
Training on wind power prediction physical
approach/CN/WED
Renewable energy policy development/CN/CRESP
Energy scale-up/CN/CRESP
Replace coal-fired generation/CN/CRESP
TOTAL = 44
R&D landscape – Individual national and
international programmes
EU
Upwind
RELIAWIND
PROTEST
NIMO
Wingy -Pro
SEANERGY
OffshoreGrid
Marina Platform
The project looks at the design of very large wind turbines, both
onshore and offshore.
Aim: achieve better efficiency for wind turbines, through the
deployment of new systems with reduced maintenance
requirements and increased availability
Aim: Develop a methodology that enables better specification of
design loads for the mechanical components of turbines.
Integrated condition monitoring system 
•eliminate catastrophic failures
•minimise the need for corrective maintenance
Demonstration of the first ever large size transversal flux generator
in an existing wind turbine.
National and international Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP)
practices, policy recommendations for developing existing and
potentially new MSP for the development of offshore renewable
power generation, and promote acceptance of the results.
Techno-economic study which will develop a scientifically based
view on an offshore grid in Northern Europe along with a suited
regulatory framework considering technical, economic, policy and
regulatory aspects.
Set of equitable and transparent criteria for the evaluation of
multi-purpose platforms for marine renewable energy (MRE).
R&D landscape – Individual national and
international programmes
DE
Project
OGOWin
RAVE
WEMP
Short description
OGOWin – “Optimization of jacket foundation structures for
offshore wind power stations concerning material
consumption, assembling order and manufacturing process”
The RAVE research initiative runs simultaneously with the
construction and operation of the "alpha ventus" test site to
attain broad based experience and knowledge for future
offshore wind parks.
The Offshore-WEMP project will gather and evaluate data and
provide collaboration between operators, manufacturers,
scientists, and other involved parties with the opportunity to
gain basic insights into offshore wind energy in terms of
reliability and availability and to address larger political
questions. It is planned as a long-term project for monitoring
the offshore wind energy deployment in Germany.
R&D landscape – Individual national and
international programmes
NL
Project
Short description
The aim of We@Sea is to gather knowledge and reduce
We@Sea risks, in order to realize a sound implementation of wind
energy in the North Sea.
Flow
The Far and Large Offshore Wind program (FLOW)
consists of an ambitious R&D plan and a demonstration
wind farm 75 km off the Dutch coast, in 35 meters water
depth. FLOW aims to accelerate the development of
offshore wind energy and to reduce the associated cost
R&D landscape – Individual national and
international programmes
UK
Project
Short description
ETI, the Energy Technologies Institute, is a 50:50
partnership between government and industry and
ETI
facilitates collaborative R&D.
NAREC provides an independent centre for the
development, testing and commercialisation of next
NAREC
generation technologies for the global wind energy
industry
The 3rd call of DECC's Environmental Transformation
Fund (ETF) aims to support, stimulate and encourage the
DECC ETF
development and demonstration of offshore wind
technologies and components
COWRIE (Collaborative Offshore Wind Research Into The
Environment) is a registered Charity set up to advance
COWRIE and improve understanding and knowledge of the
potential environmental impacts of offshore windfarm
development in UK waters.
R&D landscape – Individual national and
international programmes
Project
SE
ES
Short description
Vindforsk III is a co-financed
research programme that
Vindforsk
provides funding for basic and
III
applied research covering wind
energy.
The objective is to create an
international test plant in Spain.
The project, sponsored by the
Institute of Energy Research of
Zèfir
Catalonia (IREC), aims to become
a benchmark in research for the
installation of deepwater wind
turbines.
Research networks
EU
EAWE
ORECCA
ES
REOLTEC
DK
Megavind
NL
INNWIND
More information : Handouts available
The European Wind Initiative (EWI)
• Wind energy R&D funding : 2010 – 2020 period
• Aim: improved and increased public funding for wind energy R&D
History:
• One of the goals of the EU Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SETPlan), was to launch European Industrial Initiatives (EIIs), i.e.
Programmes for fostering R&D in 8 strategic energy sectors:
Wind
Bio-energy
Solar
Energy efficiency
Nuclear
Smart grids
CCS
Hydrogen and fuel cells
•The EWI is rooted in the SET-Plan, a 2007 blueprint for the development of
low-carbon technologies, and it was produced by TPWind in cooperation with
EU Institutions and Member States
The European Wind Initiative (EWI)
•Published in 2009 (EC Communication: “Investing in the development of
low carbon technologies”)
•Launched in 2010
•Implemented by TPWind, EU institutions and Member States
Total budget for 2010-2020: €6 bn(private and public)
€2.5bn: New
turbines and
components
€1.2bn:Offshore
sturctures
Game – changer: All relevant
EU and national funding
schemes:
€0.2bn: Resource
assessment and
spatial planning
€2.1bn: Grid
integration
Coordinated
+
Focused
Priorities of
Wind sector
EU funding for the EWI is very likely to increase
significantly over the 2014 – 2020 period (i.e.
when the new FP8 will be operational)
The EWI: overview
Roadmap
12/11/2009
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The EWI: expected impact on the sector